{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including gradle. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-42445 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade gradle to a fixed version for your release line: 7.6.3 or 8.4.0.","what":"CVE-2023-42445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in gradle, published on 6 Oct 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-42445 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-42445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in gradle, published on 6 Oct 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-42445 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- gradle (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 7.6.3, 8.4.0\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42445/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42445/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-42445","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42445/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-42445","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-42445","BIT-gradle-2023-42445","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42445","GHSA-mrff-q8qj-xvg8","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-42445"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Gradle build tool","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can exfiltrate local files via XML External Entity injection when Gradle parses remote XML descriptors.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xxe"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"gradle","vendor":"gradle"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-611","name":"Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference"}],"description":"Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Possible local file exfiltration by XML External entity injection","id":"CVE-2023-42445","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":null,"products":[],"type":"xxe","year":"2023"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Pow Mnesia cache doesn't invalidate all expired keys on startup","id":"CVE-2023-42446"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["7.6.3","8.4.0"],"introduced":["0","8.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"gradle","purl":"pkg:bitnami/gradle","source":"BIT-gradle-2023-42445"}],"prev":{"headline":"phonenumber panics on parsing crafted RF3966 inputs","id":"CVE-2023-42444"},"products":["gradle"],"published":"2023-10-06","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-15052","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-08-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-6199","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-02-07"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Local privilege escalation through system temporary directory","id":"CVE-2021-29428","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-04-13"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Gradle fails to disable repositories which can expose builds to malicious artifacts","id":"CVE-2026-22816","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-16"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Gradle's failure to disable repositories failing to answer can expose builds to malicious artifacts","id":"CVE-2026-22865","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-16"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-41588","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-09-24"},{"cvss_score":8,"headline":"Repository content filters do not work in Settings pluginManagement","id":"CVE-2021-29427","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-04-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-06-16","vendors":["gradle"]},"summary":"Attackers can exfiltrate local files via XML External Entity injection when Gradle parses remote XML descriptors.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42445/"}